Panic and tension is very high among staff in the office of the Commissioner Land Registration after learning that detectives from police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) together with those in Office of the Inspector General of Government (IGG) have concluded their investigations into the allegations of corruption and fraud against them and very soon they are going to be picked like grasshoppers and charged before the Anti-Corruption Chief Magistrates Court.
Recently, this mighty investigative website reported how detectives from different investigation agencies raided the Office of the Commissioner Land Registration at the headquarters of the Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development and a number of offices where searched and exhibits like documents and money were taken as vital evidence to be used to pin different officials under investigations.
A lot of evidence was gathered and a number of top officials and junior staff were briefly detained at the CID headquarters in Kibuli but released on police bond.
Sources close to the ongoing investigations revealed to this website that since then, Maj Dr Tom Magambo the CID Director has been leading the investigations and getting frequent briefs everyday until he gathered enough evidence that he plans to use when securing conviction of the accused.
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We have been told that orders have been given that the files be delivered to prosecutors for sanctioning.
The prosecutors started with the criminal file of the embattled Baker Mugaino, the interdicted Commissioner Land titles Registration.
Mugaino was paraded before the Anti-Corruption Chief Magistrates Court, charged with offences related to corruption and abuse of office and remanded to Luzira prisons.
A prosecutor in the IGG’s office claims that in April 2025, while serving as the Commissioner Land Registration, Mugaino with others still at large abused his office and authority and cancelled land titles issued to Tropical Bank and Gerald Akugizibwe.
Sources said that among those who are targeted is Moses Ssekito the Acting Principal Registrar of titles in the ministry of lands who was trained and mentored by former Commissioner Land title Registration Sarah Kulata.
A number of top Deep State members have been frequently asking who Ssekito is.
Ssekito and others on the list will be added to eleven other Ministry of Lands officials like Jasper Kakooza the interdicted acting Commissioner for Mapping and Surveys in the ministry of lands who was also charged with offences related to fraud, abuse of office and corruption.
Sources said that some Ministry officials have tried to frustrate investigations but they failed because even though Magambo has been coordinating the investigations, police has been working with detectives from the IGG and State House Anti-Corruption Unit commanded by Brig Gen Henry Rusoke and President Museveni has been closely following the investigations because he is the one who sanctioned the move.
The President picked interest into the alleged corruption in the Ministry of Lands after he received a complaint from a longtime friend who he fought with to liberate Uganda in 1986 that his land in Entebbe is under threat of being taken because officials in the Ministry of Lands have created a land title on top of his land title and they are threatening to cancel his land title.
The president also received another complaint from his long-time personal lawyer Dr Sam Mayanja the State Minister informing him of how Mugaino is frustrating him in executing the directive he gave him to register government land in Entebbe in the names of the State House which is going to be used by the State House for developmental projects.
President Museveni also stormed Kiboga district to save his war comrade Hajji Badru Mwanje who was evicted from his land and his entire farm destroyed by a young man who was arrested and is facing prosecution.
Sources said that it is not only Museveni but also his young brother Gen Salim Saleh is also following the ongoing investigations in the Ministry of Lands and he recently revealed that he is working with professor John Kiguli to establish how the government can use land very well to develop the country.
Gen Saleh, the coordinator of the Operation Wealth Creation also revealed that government has started the process of detailing the individuals who own land in Kampala city.
This was after he denied owning half of Kampala land insisting that he only owns not more than two acres in Kampala.
Recently, Minister Mayanja revealed to this website that very soon, Uganda is going to see a land revolution in the country and the department of land registration, land mapping and surveying is going to be placed under the ministry of Défense and anyone practicing land surveying will be tasked to be a soldier.
He added that the government is studying how it can implement the recommendations made by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire who chaired the land probe.
Sources said that staff in the Ministry of Lands have been conniving with mafias with a lot of money to grab people and government land through securing fraudulent land titles to tamper with land registration records.
Mayanja said that because of that fraud it is the reason why there are a lot violent land evictions especially in Buganda region where land is more expensive and land brokering has become a lucrative job for real estate dealers.
